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Nihon Hidankyo is a nation-wide organisation formed by survivor groups of atomic bomb victims from Hiroshima and Nagasaki in each prefecture. [4] The fallout from Castle Bravo , a thermonuclear weapon test conducted at Bikini Atoll by the United States in 1954, caused acute radiation syndrome in residents of neighbouring atolls and 23 crew ...
Terumi Tanaka (田中 煕巳, Tanaka Terumi, born 29 April 1932) [1] is a Japanese anti-nuclear and anti-war activist and former professor. He is a hibakusha, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, and is the secretary general of Nihon Hidankyo, a Japan-wide organisation of atomic and hydrogen bomb sufferers. [2]
Sunao Tsuboi (坪井 直, Tsuboi Sunao, May 5, 1925 – October 24, 2021) [1] was a Japanese anti-nuclear, anti-war activist, and teacher. He was a hibakusha, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and was the co-chair of Nihon Hidankyo, a Japan-wide organisation of atomic and hydrogen bomb sufferers. [2]
Mr Tanaka is the co-chair of Nihon Hidankyo – The Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organisations – whose decades of advocacy work against nuclear weapons has finally been ...
Terumi Tanaka, 92, is one of the three co-chairs of Nihon Hidankyo, a group for those who lived through the US atomic bomb attacks on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, and demanded “actions from ...
OSLO (Reuters) -Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, in a warning to countries who ...
Japan surrendered on Aug. 15, 1945, ending World War II and its nearly half-century of aggression across Asia. Nihon Hidankyo was formed in 1956 by survivors of the attacks and victims of nuclear weapons tests in the Pacific amid demands for government support for health problems.
Kido was born in 1940, in Nagasaki.He was five years old when he was exposed to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. [2] His house was 2 kilometers from the epicenter of the blast, where he suffered facial burns and was saved from the severe effects of the explosion by his mother, who was more severely injured. [3]